Terms & Conditions

Terms and conditions of use

Introduction

These terms and con­di­tions apply between you, the User of
this Web­site (includ­ing any sub-domains, unless expressly excluded by their own
terms and con­di­tions), and Nex­us Pub­lish­ing, the own­er and oper­at­or of this Web­site.
Please read these terms and con­di­tions care­fully, as they affect your leg­al
rights. Your agree­ment to com­ply with and be bound by these terms and
con­di­tions is deemed to occur upon your first use of the Web­site. If you do not
agree to be bound by these terms and con­di­tions, you should stop using the
Web­site imme­di­ately.

In these terms and con­di­tions, User or Users
means any third party that accesses the Web­site and is not either (i) employed by Nex­us Pub­lish­ing and act­ing in the course of
their employ­ment or (ii) engaged as a con­sult­ant or oth­er­wise provid­ing
ser­vices to Nex­us Pub­lish­ing and access­ing the Web­site in con­nec­tion with the
pro­vi­sion of such ser­vices.

You must be at least 18 years of age to use this Web­site. By
using the Web­site and agree­ing to these terms and con­di­tions, you rep­res­ent and
war­rant that you are at least 18 years of age.

Intellectual property and acceptable use

1. All
Con­tent included on the Web­site, unless uploaded by Users, is the prop­erty of
Nex­us Pub­lish­ing, our affil­i­ates or oth­er rel­ev­ant third parties. In these
terms and con­di­tions, Con­tent means any text, graph­ics, images, audio, video,
soft­ware, data com­pil­a­tions, page lay­out, under­ly­ing code and soft­ware and any
oth­er form of inform­a­tion cap­able of being stored in a com­puter that appears on
or forms part of this Web­site, includ­ing any such con­tent uploaded by Users. By
con­tinu­ing to use the Web­site you acknow­ledge that such Con­tent is pro­tec­ted by
copy­right, trade­marks, data­base rights and oth­er intel­lec­tu­al prop­erty rights.
Noth­ing on this site shall be con­strued as grant­ing, by implic­a­tion, estop­pel,
or oth­er­wise, any license or right to use any trade­mark, logo or ser­vice mark
dis­played on the site without the own­er­’s pri­or writ­ten per­mis­sion

2. You
may, for your own per­son­al, non-com­mer­cial use only, do the fol­low­ing:

a. retrieve,
dis­play and view the Con­tent on a com­puter screen

b. print
one copy of the Con­tent

3. You
must not oth­er­wise repro­duce, modi­fy, copy, dis­trib­ute or use for com­mer­cial
pur­poses any Con­tent without the writ­ten per­mis­sion of Nex­us Pub­lish­ing.

Prohibited use

4. You
may not use the Web­site for any of the fol­low­ing pur­poses:

a. in
any way which causes, or may cause, dam­age to the Web­site or inter­feres with
any oth­er per­son’s use or enjoy­ment of the Web­site;

b. in
any way which is harm­ful, unlaw­ful, illeg­al, abus­ive, har­ass­ing, threat­en­ing or
oth­er­wise objec­tion­able or in breach of any applic­able law, reg­u­la­tion,
gov­ern­ment­al order;

c. mak­ing,
trans­mit­ting or stor­ing elec­tron­ic cop­ies of Con­tent pro­tec­ted by copy­right without
the per­mis­sion of the own­er.

Registration

5. You
must ensure that the details provided by you on regis­tra­tion or at any time are
cor­rect and com­plete.

6. You
must inform us imme­di­ately of any changes to the inform­a­tion that you provide
when regis­ter­ing by updat­ing your per­son­al details to ensure we can com­mu­nic­ate
with you effect­ively.

7. We
may sus­pend or can­cel your regis­tra­tion with imme­di­ate effect for any
reas­on­able pur­poses or if you breach these terms and con­di­tions.

8. You
may can­cel your regis­tra­tion at any time by inform­ing us in writ­ing to the
address at the end of these terms and con­di­tions. If you do so, you must
imme­di­ately stop using the Web­site. Can­cel­la­tion or sus­pen­sion of your
regis­tra­tion does not affect any stat­utory rights.

Links to other websites

9. This
Web­site may con­tain links to oth­er sites. Unless expressly stated, these sites
are not under the con­trol of Nex­us Pub­lish­ing or that of our affil­i­ates.

10. We
assume no respons­ib­il­ity for the con­tent of such Web­sites and dis­claim
liab­il­ity for any and all forms of loss or dam­age arising out of the use of
them.

11. The
inclu­sion of a link to anoth­er site on this Web­site does not imply any
endorse­ment of the sites them­selves or of those in con­trol of them.

Privacy Policy and Cookies Policy

12. Use
of the Web­site is also gov­erned by our Pri­vacy Policy and Cook­ies Policy, which
are incor­por­ated into these terms and con­di­tions by this ref­er­ence. To view the
Pri­vacy Policy and Cook­ies Policy, please click on the fol­low­ing:
http://www.themicrobusinesshandbook.co.uk/cookies and
http://www.themicrobusinesshandbook.co.uk/cookies.

Availability of the Website and disclaimers

13. Any
online facil­it­ies, tools, ser­vices or inform­a­tion that Nex­us Pub­lish­ing makes
avail­able through the Web­site (the Ser­vice) is provided “as
is” and on an “as avail­able” basis. We give no war­ranty that the
Ser­vice will be free of defects and/or faults. To the max­im­um extent per­mit­ted
by the law, we provide no war­ranties (express or implied) of fit­ness for a
par­tic­u­lar pur­pose, accur­acy of inform­a­tion, com­pat­ib­il­ity and sat­is­fact­ory
qual­ity. Nex­us Pub­lish­ing is under no oblig­a­tion to update inform­a­tion on the
Web­site.

14. Whilst
Nex­us Pub­lish­ing uses reas­on­able endeav­ours to ensure that the Web­site is
secure and free of errors, vir­uses and oth­er mal­ware, we give no war­ranty or
guar­anty in that regard and all Users take respons­ib­il­ity for their own
secur­ity, that of their per­son­al details and their com­puters.

15. Nex­us
Pub­lish­ing accepts no liab­il­ity for any dis­rup­tion or non-avail­ab­il­ity of the
Web­site.

16. Nex­us
Pub­lish­ing reserves the right to alter, sus­pend or dis­con­tin­ue any part (or the
whole of) the Web­site includ­ing, but not lim­ited to, any products and/or
ser­vices avail­able. These terms and con­di­tions shall con­tin­ue to apply to any
mod­i­fied ver­sion of the Web­site unless it is expressly stated oth­er­wise.

General

20. You
may not trans­fer any of your rights under these terms and con­di­tions to any
oth­er per­son. We may trans­fer our rights under these terms and con­di­tions where
we reas­on­ably believe your rights will not be affected.

21. These
terms and con­di­tions may be var­ied by us from time to time. Such revised terms
will apply to the Web­site from the date of pub­lic­a­tion. Users should check the
terms and con­di­tions reg­u­larly to ensure famili­ar­ity with the then cur­rent
ver­sion.

22. These
terms and con­di­tions togeth­er with the Pri­vacy Policy and Cook­ies Policy
con­tain the whole agree­ment between the parties relat­ing to its sub­ject mat­ter
and super­sede all pri­or dis­cus­sions, arrange­ments or agree­ments that might have
taken place in rela­tion to the terms and con­di­tions.

23. The
Con­tracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 shall not apply to these terms and
con­di­tions and no third party will have any right to enforce or rely on any
pro­vi­sion of these terms and con­di­tions.

24. If
any court or com­pet­ent author­ity finds that any pro­vi­sion of these terms and
con­di­tions (or part of any pro­vi­sion) is inval­id, illeg­al or unen­force­able,
that pro­vi­sion or part-pro­vi­sion will, to the extent required, be deemed to be
deleted, and the valid­ity and enforce­ab­il­ity of the oth­er pro­vi­sions of these
terms and con­di­tions will not be affected.

25. Unless
oth­er­wise agreed, no delay, act or omis­sion by a party in exer­cising any right
or rem­edy will be deemed a waiver of that, or any oth­er, right or rem­edy.

26. This
Agree­ment shall be gov­erned by and inter­preted accord­ing to the law of Eng­land
and Wales and all dis­putes arising under the Agree­ment (includ­ing non-con­trac­tu­al
dis­putes or claims) shall be sub­ject to the exclus­ive jur­is­dic­tion of the
Eng­lish and Welsh courts.

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About The Author

Dave Howell is Nexus Publishing. I have been working as a freelance writer, journalist and publisher for the last 20 years. I specialise in technology and business subjects. My work has appeared in the national press and many of the leading technology and business magazines.